Grass hopper: Chrotogonus trachypterus

Symptoms of damage:

• Nymph and adult feed on leaves
• Irregular feeding on leaf blade
• Cattle grazed appearance is found at severely infested fields

Cutting of leaf tips	Adult on leaves	Adult bitten leaves	Cutting of leaf tips

Identification of pest:

• Egg: Are laid in groups in soil.  Eggs are either whitish, yellowish green, brownish or dirty brown in colour
• Nymph: Early instar nymphs are whitish in colour with lines. Nymphal period is 30-50 days.
• Adult: stout, greenish brown in colour with lines in body

Nymph	Adult

Management:

• Clean sanitation and ploughing after harvesting
• Early sowing
• Summer ploughing
• Spray carabaryl 50 WP 400 g
• Spiders feed on the nymph and adult
• At dry and moist conditions apply Entomophthora grylli to control grasshopper